FlyBase: enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology annotations.
FlyBase (http://flybase.org) is a database of Drosophila genetic and genomic information. Gene Ontology (GO) terms are used to describe three attributes of wild-type gene products: their molecular function, the biological processes in which they play a role, and their subcellular location. This article describes recent changes to the FlyBase GO annotation strategy that are improving the quality of the GO annotation data. Many of these changes stem from our participation in the GO Reference Genome Annotation Project--a multi-database collaboration producing comprehensive GO annotation sets for 12 diverse species.
Tweedie
Susan
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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK. s.tweedie@gen.cam.ac.uk
Ashburner
Michael
M
Falls
Kathleen
K
Leyland
Paul
P
McQuilton
Peter
P
Marygold
Steven
S
Millburn
Gillian
G
Osumi-Sutherland
David
D
Schroeder
Andrew
A
Seal
Ruth
R
Zhang
Haiyan
H
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